The Top 300 Comics had sales worth$19.41 million (down 17%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
7% vs. same month
5 years earlier)(up
20% vs. same month
10 years earlier)

Category to date for year$162.7 million
(down 3% vs. previous year)

The Top 300 Trade Paperbacks had sales worth$5.3 million (down 21%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
12% vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 1% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Category to date for year$48.45 million
(down 9% vs. previous year)

Combined, those two categories were worth$24.71 million (down 18%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
8% vs. same month
5 years earlier, comparing just the Top 100 TPBs)(up 15% vs. same
month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 TPBs)

Category to date for year$211.08 million
(down 4% vs. previous year)

OVERALL
including all comics, trades, and magazines Diamond had sales of$31.03
million (down 14%
vs.
same month
previous year)(down
5% vs. same month
5 years earlier)

THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are
for comics shipped byDiamond
Comic Distributors,
the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond publishes "indexed" sales figures, in
which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single
comic book (usually Batman),
with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders.
We use the actual Diamond final orders from titles accounting for more
than 25% of Diamond’s Top 300 to approximate what an order index point
equals each month. The result is applied to the Diamond charts to
produce the estimates seen at right.